Combined floor and bedstead.



No. 778,797. PATENTED DEC. 27, 1904.

J, PEJUHAR.

COMBINED FLOOR AND BEDSTEAD.

APPLICATION FILED APR.18, 1903.

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UNITED STATES Patented December 27, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEF PEJCHAR, OF NEFV YORK, N. Y.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 778,797, dated December27, 1904. Application filed April 18, 1903. Serial No. 153,218.

To all 7/f7l/07N/ it may concern:

Be it known that I, JosEE PEJOHAR, a citizen of Austria-Hungary,residing at New York city, (Bronx,) county of estchester, State of NewYork, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a CombinedFloor and Bedstead, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a floor which is so constructed as to form abedstead sunk beneath the floorlevel. The bedstead is normally closed bydoors which are flush with and form part of the floor and which uponbeing opened permit the bed to be occupied. Thus the bedstead takes upno useful room whatever, which is of special advantage for tenements andother apartments of limited size.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan of my improved combinedfloor and bedstead; Fig. 2, a vertical longitudinal section thereof online 2 2, Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a crosssection on line 3 3, Fig. 2; Fig. 4:, across-section on line a a, Fig. 2, showing the parts in a difl'erentposition. Fig. 5 is a detail of one of the hangers.

The letters 4/ a representa pair of adjoining parallel beams or joistsof a floor. Across these beams are laid two or more U-shaped hangers b,the flanges Z) of which may be sunk into corresponding cross cuts of thebeams. These hangers form a number of transverse supports between thebeams and beneath the floor-level. Upon the hangers o is detachablysupported a receptacle or box 0, made, preferably, of wood and of thesize of an ordinary bedstead. This box is likewise sunk beneath thefloor-level, its upper edge being set flush with or below the beams 60.\Vithin the box 0 is placed a removable sheetmetal pan (Z, which insurescleanliness and constitutes a protector against vermin. The pan supportsby feet or rails e a spring bedbottom a of suitable construction, uponwhich the bedding may be placed.

Above the box 0 the flooring-boards f are 45 removed, so that access tothe bedstead may be had. Normally the bedstead is closed by trap-doorsg, which are flush with the floorlevel and may be opened and closed by acountersunk handle 9 should overlap and be packed to exclud dust. Ifdesired, the trap-door may be replaced by removable doors. In ordinaryuse the doors are opened and the sunk bedstead, arranged as in Fig. 3,is occupied. however, be desired to raise the bedstead above thefloor-level during its occupancy. For this purpose I provide a set offour or more transverse bolts 7, guided in tubes 72/, which are let intothe tops of beams at. these bolts are shot out, they form supports forthe box 0, which is lifted, preferably, together with the hangers, abovethe floor-level, Fig. 4:. Thus as long as the bed is in use it willproject above the floor, while when un- 5 occupied it may be readilysunk beneath the floor, so as to be out of the way.

That I claim is- The combination of floor-beams with guides sunk intothe beams, bolts slidable in the 7 guides, U-shaped hangers supported bythe beams, and a sleeping-box supported by the hangers.

Signed by me at New York city, (Manhattan,) New York, this 17th day ofApril, 1903. 75

J OSEF PEJ CHAR.

WVitnesses:

WILLIAM SoHULz, FRANK v. BRIESEN.

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